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Beaumont, Joseph, 1616-1699 (poet and college head)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1616 - 1699

Biography

Joseph Beaumont (1616-1699), Master of Peterhouse and Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Beaumont was born in Hadleigh, Suffolk and started his education at the local grammar school, eventually graduating with a BA from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1635. A staunchly religious man, Beaumont was ejected from his fellowship position at Peterhouse for promoting Laudianism within the college, along with Matthew Wren (bishop of Ely) and John Cosin. He published a mystical epic, 'Psyche, or, Love's Mystery' in 1648, as well as a compilation of English poems entitled 'Minor Poems' (1644-52). Beaumont became Master of Peterhouse in 1663, where he promoted high-churchmanship and strict discipline. He died from gout in November 1699.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Joseph Beaumont: autograph letter to his father, John Beaumont

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7583
Dates: 21 Mar 1641
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Joseph Beaumont: Commentary on St Paul's Epistle to Colossians

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8688-8689
Scope and Contents

'Annotationes in Epistolam Sancti Pauli ad Colossenses Authore Reverendo Doctore Josepho Beaumont Sacra Theologiae Professore Regio in Academia Cantabrigensi.'. Latin, with Greek quotations.

Dates: c. 1660
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Joseph Beaumont: Question Books

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.697-699
Scope and Contents

Volumes of examination questions of acts held in the schools at Cambridge.

Dates: 1677-1699
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Prelections, Eighteenth century

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.03.01-MS Kk.03.17
Scope and Contents

The prelections of Joseph Beaumont, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, on St Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and on chapter ii, verses 5-11 of that to the Philippians. Transcripts, in various hands. One volume appears to be missing, as volume XVI ends abruptly, and the prelections to Colossians, of which mention is made in the biography included in the 1749 edition of his poems, are not present.

Dates: Eighteenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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